Stakeholder organisations

One vital objective of the CLINF Nordic Centre of Excellence is to create incentives for a Pan-Northern organisation that attends to the threats of climate sensitive infectious diseases (CSIs’). This requires identification of stakeholders at all possible levels, and the provision of a forum for mutual identification within the stakeholder community. CLINF has therefore conducted a survey where approximately 150 typical stakeholder organisations have been identified “from Nuuk to Yakutsk”, that may be considered to be a just sample representing the larger population of all possible organisations. In order to promote the necessary process of mutual stakeholder identification, these organisations are listed below. Principle component analysis of the connections between these organisations resulted in the identification of five interconnected clusters (see also Sepp Böhme’s M.Sc. thesis). In addition, CLINF contacts into Russia have been depicted specifically.

Scientific institutions:
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Yakutsk State Agricultural Academy
Greenland Center for Health Research (GCHR)
State Scientific Center of “Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute” (St. Petersburg)
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after MV Lomonosov
Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute of Medical Problems of the North
Scientific Research Center of the Arctic (Salekhard)
Tyumen Research Institute of Regional Infectious Pathology
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Institute of Humanitarian Research and Indigenous Peoples of the North of SB RAS
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR)
Greenland’s Medical Research Council
Greenland’s Nutrition Council
Greenland Center for Health Research (GCHR)
Danish Medical Association
Greenland’s Research Council
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
Circumpolar Health Research Network (CHRN)
Thule Institute, Oulu University, Finland
Swedish National Veterinary Institute
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Umeå University
Northern Research Institute Narvik
NORD University
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Sámi University of Applied Sciences
Institute For Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, KELDUR
National University Hospital of Iceland

CLINF is a Nordic Centre of Excellence that operates under the NordForsk Joint Initiative on Arctic Research: Responsible Development of the Arctic, Opportunities and Challenges – Pathways to Action. It sets out to identify and investigate the effects of climate change on the geographic distribution and epidemiology of human and animal infectious diseases throughout the Northern region, from Western Greenland to Eastern Siberia. CLINF will study such climate-change effects on northern animal husbandry households in the light of socio-economic and managerial conditions.
CLINF will turn new understanding, regarding climate-change effects on the geographic distribution and epidemiology of climate sensitive infectious diseases, into practical tools for decision-makers responsible for the development of northern societies, both by providing relevant data in an accessible form, and by developing an early warning system for climate sensitive infections at the local level.